The allusion to site updates wasn't a farce, but I figured this piece of news deserved it's own post to start with. Long story short, I broke the site last Friday and didn't find out about it until yesterday. Apparently a ton of Hiffers haven't been seeing any new posts since September 24. My bad!

To make matters worse, those of us who saw the new updates were still experiencing discrepancies across the site (comment counts were inaccurate, new posts would show up and then vanish, and I think my room's haunted with a ghost…well, that last one really only applies to me).

I've fixed the code on my end, but it could take up to 72 hours to filter down to everyone. However, there are some quick and easy steps you can take to make sure you get the correct fix much sooner:

Those steps should take care of the problem. Again, apologizes for the trouble! I'm heading to bed, but feel free to leave any comments or questions and I'll get to them in the morning.

EDIT: Just to be clear, this wasn't a virus or anything malicious. I simply inadvertently put in code that told people's browsers not to check for a new version of HIF until April 2010. 😀 For better or worse, I intend to make new posts between now and then, so I deleted that code!

About Goob

A world renowned slalom skier, fluent speaker of 14 languages, and freebie hunter. Only one of those is true, but it makes my biography look much fuller. In my spare time, I enjoy launching my own space program and disproving the Coriolis effect.

I’ve been trying to see the new freebies for a few days. I was worried that something happenend to you…and I don’t even know you personally…. I started looking around the site and saw that you posted today so I hit refresh on the home page and it showed up.

Thanks Goob! You are my homepage and everytime I logged on I had to “refresh” the page. I would keep the “refreshed” version the next time I booted up, but never did update. I thought it was something on my end. Thanks for ALL you do!!!!!

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